Academic on the brink the lack of food strike as a pass through ban lifted

Amati Mondi academic Morocco has suspended its three-week hunger strike after the travel ban imposed on him by the authorities. But he is not accused of destabilizing State security and might face five years in prison.

"I have canceled my hunger strike on October 29 after the court decision to give me my freedom to travel outside Morocco," Mondi 55-year-old, a professor of political history at the Institute of African Studies at the Mohamed V University in Rabat, said in the letter.

"But the battle is not over yet, I have my tribunal [Tribunal de première instance in Rabat] because it is known on November 19," said Mondi, he had been "accused of destabilizing State security based on article 206 of the Criminal Code, adding Morocco".

Mondi, who Senegal based on the scientific committee of the Council for the Development of Social Science in CODESRIA for Africa is a member, is also said to be on a hunger strike since 6 October in Casablanca airport after authorities prevented him from traveling to Norway to attend a seminar on 10 August.

In September, the National Brigade of the Judicial Police was called and accused him, among other things, threatening state security.

According to his lawyer Abderrahim Jamal, Mondi receiving foreign funds to destabilize the Moroccans in their organizations and to the costs of national security at risk.

Moroccan authorities say that the ban, while the head of the Bin Rushed Institute Mondi happened, investigative techniques and to train journalists Moroccan citizen journalism "financial violations" that. Mondi reportedly last December to close the institute "After repeated interference of the state," the AP.

Mondi offered to individual and institutional local, regional and international support to thank. "That's all it was for me recovery, and was a great help, and I was deeply touched," he said in the letter.

The core mandate of international institutions to promote the intellectual repression and constant harassment Mondi, CODESRIA, including the Middle East Studies Association and Freedom Now they protested against.

International responses

Front Line Defenders, Ireland, the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights, which is "gravely concerned at the charges against Amati Mondi," he said in a statement on October 30.

November 19 Mondi Foundation and other human rights defenders on trial, said: "the 'state of internal security threats' charges are confirmed, Amati Mondi, His ham Almeria, Each Salad, Mohamed Wickham Missouri and Elsa to face five years in prison, 206 Morocco will be in accordance with the article of the Criminal Code. "

The decision of the court by the Commission for the Promotion of International Amati Mondi Mondi appeared happy to give back freedom to travel outside Morocco.

But in the end, "slander campaign against Mondi all baseless accusations, intimidation and harassment aimed at him everything" to make, Abdullah said Hammond, chairman of the committee and professor of anthropology at Princeton University in America.

"This committee will continue to support Amati Mondi, and will remain vigilant," he stressed.